May 14, 2018

"People followed me on Instagram and the people gave me a platform to introduce my talent. I never asked to be a example or a role model I don’t want to change my ways because I’m famous that’s why I just mind my business. This is coming from a woman that bleached her skin but want to advocate. GOODBYE. I’m not apologizing or kill myself because of who I am."

Said Cardi B, deleting her Instagram account, after Azealia Banks said "Two years ago, the conversation surrounding black women’s culture was really reaching an all-time high. There was just this really, really, really intelligent conversation going on nationally and then everything just kind of changed and then it was like Cardi B."

I don't know how really, really, really intelligent the conversation was before Cardi B became a voice people were hearing or how she could have changed the whole conversation, so I'll just leave you with those quotes for what they're worth.

31 comments:

“Really, really intelligent” is a relative term and I’m thinking that Azealia probably has a point. The William F. Buckley’s of the Black female dialectic are those that can talk articulate an abstraction, however wrong-headed. I can imagine they’re frustrated in every direction.

Cardi B was wondering where all the money taken from her in taxes was going a few months ago. Is Cardi B being attacked now because she wonders what governments do with 40% of her income? Successful black woman who thinks government should be audited is being hounded for no good reason.

A scientist at UCLA reports: "All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?"

What bitch working as hard as me?I don't bother with these hoesDon't let these hoes bother meThey see pictures, they say goalsBitch, I'm who they tryna beLook, I might just chill in some BapeI might just chill with your booI might just feel on your babeMy pussy feel like a lakeHe wanna swim with his faceI'm like okayI'll let him do what he wantHe buy me Yves Saint Laurent

"Intelligent","smart","considered","brilliant", etc.. all mean "agrees with me and spreads the one true faith of [blank.]" Obviously, since there is only one true faith, only stupid people could disagree and all who agree are smart.

Fashion changes season to season, year to year, generation to genertation.Idiocy remains a constant. Idiocy over fashion is therefore perennial, and there are always novel idiocies over fashion appearing to delight and amuse us.

Was "them bitches frontin' like they wasn't trying to get some of the pudding pop!" (about the women who accused Bill Cosby) an example of the intelligent conversation or not, since it wasn't specifically about black women?

This is just music business crap. Unlike the crowded men's hip-hop scene, the women's hip-hop space is a zero-sum game. A new star knocks out an older star; there's not enough room for both. Plus, there's the authenticity angle. Azealia Banks has a persona, and she's using that processed voice. People get tired of shtick. Cardi B is perceived as less refined. less packaged and therefore more "genuine." Maybe she's vulgar but, hey, people like real. Plus, Azealia is picking a fight with someone bigger now; that smacks of attention-getting. I'm paraphrasing my 15-y-o daughter.

The "lighter is better" skin-tonism tension exists in so many cultures - from India to Brazil to Hispanics to China. Except, as a previous commenter pointed out, among Americans of European descent, darker is better. Intermarriage of the races apparently doesn't eliminate racism, it only creates more color strata to fight about.